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| 2003 World Freestyle Kayak Championships - Report 25, May 28 Competition Day 3 - Men's Kayak Prelims Heats, 1 - 10 The word for today was NERVES! Today was an incredible day
of great paddling mixed with cold feet. Andrew Holcomb started off today
first and had a terrible first ride. He said after that he just "froze
and forgot where he was and what to do". That didn´t last long
for the "ice man" though as his amnesia went away and he rocked
the hole putting him in first place and staying there for the next thirty
men to go. Billy Harris from Canada, did the exact same thing, blew his
first ride, then got himself back on the horse for a rocking second ride.
Jay Kincaid, showed why, although this is his first worlds, he is one
of the best. He had to rides that would likely put him into finals without
the second one! (premlims is two rides added together). Jay stayed in
first for a long time but Tyler Curtis paddled to just 4 points behind
Andrew putting him in third with two solid rides. Finally in the last
heat of the day, after a super low first run, Brendan Mark had the biggest
ride of the day getting over 300 points in one ride, to Jay´s 200.
So Brendan set a new standard for the men on the last ride of the day!
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